Mangaluru, July 21: A teenage boy was brutally assaulted by a group of miscreants belonging to a saffron outfit earlier this week, breathed his last at a hospital in Mangaluru without responding to treatment.
Muhammad Mashhood, 19, was attacked by on July 19 at Kalanja village near Bellare in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. A native of Moghral Puttur in Kasaragod district, Masood had reportedly shifted to his grandfather Abbu Muqri’s house recently for the purpose of job.
Mashhood and one Sudheer, who knew each other, had fought over some trivial issue on July 19 evening. At night, the miscreants called Masood to Vishnu Nagar area of Kalanja under the pretext of solving the matter and brutally assaulted him. He was also hit with soda bottles on his head.
A critically injured Mashhood was shifted to a private hospital in Manglauru where he succumbed to injuries today.
Police have already arrested eight miscreants in connection with the assault. They have been identified as Abhilash, Snil, Sudhir, Shivaprasad, Gym Ranjit, Sadashiva and Bhaskar, Ranjit. Most of them are said to be activists of Bajrang Dal.
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